What are your thoughts on the new OER system that will be implemented 1 Apr 2014?

I think the best thing it is adding is enforced counseling.  So few leaders do any counseling at all.  Once I had a senior rater give me a copy of his OERSF and I was totally confused.  I thought he had accidentally emailed to to me and was scared to open the file.  Without being too specific, I have worked for several leaders who had the "I'll know what I want when you give it to me," style of supervision which was largely because they didn't take the time to plan.  Being forced to write quarterly counselings would have at least given me an idea if I was on target before the OER.  I don't think the new OER will change someone who has a general lack of planning mentality, but if an officer is going to be called out for a deficiency, he/she would have 3 or 4 quarterly counselings to make a course correction before the OER - and would have a ready defense if the deficiency was never mentioned in any counseling. 

I think the training portal was a good idea, but the fact that there are serious problems with the training portal, I do not feel confident that the roll out of the new system will work without problems. 

No real change. It doesn't fix what's broken.